Being green doesn’t necessary mean you have to be a smelly hippy (no offense I love most hippies) so I wanted to prove this by sharing an awesome find when I found RiceBunny’s blog with her amazing natural & eco beauty tutorials.  Her blog is so addicting *sigh*

natural & eco beauty tutorials

Natural & eco beauty tutorials by RiceBunny

Get Beautiful Curls with Paper Bags or Rags

With the paper bag curl technique you don’t use any heat so it’s healthy for the environment and your hair.  Now while the awesome author, RiceBunny in the tutorial uses new cute paper bags, you can take the step to use grocery bags or other recycled paper to add that extra green touch.  When I learned to do this, I used strips of fabrics from old t-shirts (old sheets, pillow cases, anything fabric) instead called “rag curls”.  You can youtube this and try both to see what works better for you.  Either way, they’re both eco.  I personally haven’t curled with paper yet and that’s because my hair is too short at the moment.  It was pretty comfortable to sleep in the fabric strips.

How this is green:

  1. no heat means saving energy
  2. putting recycled paper bags or old fabrics to glamorous use

Personal Benefits:

  1. no heat means healthy hair
  2. efficient time use.  while waiting for your curls you could be doing errands.

I kept waiting to blog this post because I was trying to find my own pictures of how my hair turned out.  I use to have super long hair and I really loved the results.  My hair was too long for me to sit and curl because it’d take forever so this was really convenient.  With my laptop fried, I don’t think I’ll ever find my pictures so I’ll have to wait for future curls.

Check out her other posts because she has a lot of awesome natural beauty tricks. Like:

Save the environment while looking glamorous.  That’s hot.